Stop AAPI Hate has tracked nearly 11,500 hate incidents since March 2020.
Sasanna Yee's grandmother, Yik Oi Huang, was attacked in 2019 and died from her injuries one year later as a new wave of violence hit the Asian American community.Russell Jeung's family was forcibly removed from their homes in Monterey, California, in the late 1800s.
"When the townspeople wanted the Chinese out, the landlord evicted them. When the Chinese wouldn't leave, a fire burned down the entire village," Jeung, co-founder of theThey found a new home in San Francisco's Chinatown, "as the only place of safety against that racism," Jeung said.
"We have high numbers of elders reporting, even though elders tend to under report," Jeung said. "Our Asian elders, they often don't speak English. They don't have online technology. So the high rate of elders reporting just shows that it is a problem facing them." Currently, Anti-Asian hate incidents are reportedly down across the country, but the trauma and reality of this hate remains, especially for Susanna Yee, whose 88-year-old grandmother was"Although I have come to a place of forgiveness, there's still pain and feelings of grief that wells up occasionally," Yee, the granddaughter of Yik Oi Huang, said in an interview with ABC News. Her grandmother died a year after the attack.
"I saw this incident with my grandmother as an opportunity to reach out and to connect with people who don't look like me or us and to understand each other so that this incident and other incidents don't happen again," Yee said.
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